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Today’s political reportage will surely be dominated by Ed Miliband’s and David Cameron’s clashes at Prime Minister’s Questions over the Liam Fox affair and the stream of economic bad news. But, outside Westminster, does any of this have much impact? writes Adrian McMenamin. One of my earliest memories, from around the age of two or [...]

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Darren Murphy is the chief executive of Centreground Political Communications. He spent eight years as a special adviser in Tony Blair’s New Labour government, including as political communications adviser to the Prime Minister, working inside government as well as on Labour’s successful 1997, 2001 and 2005 campaigns. Since leaving government, he has been a political consultant, specialising in services to governments, advising heads of state and government, party and political leaders in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia on political strategy, elections, campaigns and strategic communications.

Claire O’Connor is a director of Centreground Political Communications. She was previously international director for Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection. Claire was director of performance management for the Mayor of Los Angeles and was head of policy for the British Labour Party. She has worked on projects with the WTO, the UN, the National Democratic Institute and the World Bank.

Razi Rahman is a director and company secretary of Centreground Political Communications. He was Assistant Political Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair between 2000 and 2007, advising the Prime Minister on a wide range of party and government matters. Prior to working at Downing Street he was a litigation lawyer. He has more than 20 years of national and local election campaign experience, including on-the-ground organisation. Since 2007 he has been a political consultant.

Adrian McMenamin is a director of Centreground Political Communications. He played senior roles in all three of Tony Blair’s UK general election victories, including running New Labour’s ground-breaking opposition research effort in 1997 and as Chief Press and Broadcasting Officer in 2005. He has been a consultant to numerous campaigns ranging from the SDLP 2003 assembly election campaign, as press secretary to the UK’s socialist delegation to the European Parliament, as an adviser to European accession referendum campaigns and as an adviser to the opposition in former-Soviet Georgia in the run-up to 2010 regional polls.

Joseph is an Account Executive at Centreground Political Communications. Previously, he was International Co-ordinator for the British Labour Party and worked with a range of NGOs and political parties in developing democracies across sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa. He is experienced in designing and delivering training and capacity building programmes for established and newly emerging political parties.

Kate is an Account Executive at Centreground Political Communications. Prior to joining Centreground, she worked for a global communications organisation as office manager and project associate working directly for the secretariats of pharmaceutical and not-for profit educational associations. She has particular experience in marketing and event management within the UK and throughout Europe.